Sr. Solution Architect

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Summary: Leidos is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to lead the development of sophisticated, mission-critical solutions across diverse technical arenas and guide diverse teams. Highlights: 1. Lead technical vision for complex, enterprise-scale solutions across any domain 2. Architect end-to-end solutions responding to hard mission problems 3. Serve as a senior technical authority guiding the organization toward innovation Apply Now Description Leidos has an immedie opening for a Senior Solution Architect to join our Mission Solutions team in Chantilly, VA.  We are seeking a Senior Solutions Architect who can think beyond any single domain—and lead the development of sophisticed, mission-critical solutions across AI, Cybersecurity, Enterprise IT, Biochemical and Life Sciences, Open-Source Intelligence, Da Analytics, Modeling & Simulion, and other emerging technical arenas. As a senior technical leader, you bring years of experience architecting complex systems, guiding diverse teams, and shaping stregy the highest levels. You don’t just understand one technology—you understand how technologies interact, how missions evolve, and how to engineer solutions th solve real-world problems with creivity, clarity, and technical rigor. This is a role for someone who thrives on tackling the unknown. As a key member of the CTO team, you will be the person customers and capture teams turn to when they ask, “How do we solve this?”—and you will craft the technical approach th becomes the foundion of winning proposals and successful programs. Primary Responsibilities Wh You’ll Do •Lead the technical vision for complex, enterprise-scale solutions across any domain—AI/ML, Agentic AI, Cyber, Cloud, Digital Modernizion, Intelligence Analysis, Enterprise IT, or full mission software solutions. •Architect end-to-end solutions th respond to hard mission problems, ambiguous requirements, and emerging thres with innovive, executable designs. Author technical volumes, whitepapers, and responses to RFPs/RFIs—transling technical innovion into clear, compelling customer value. Conduct thorough requirements analysis and transle customer needs into actionable technical specificions •Guide and influence cross-disciplinary teams, bringing together SMEs from multiple technical areas to shape cohesive architectures. •Drive technical capture and proposals by developing solution stregies, authoring technical narrives, and ensuring the approach aligns with customer needs and mission realities. •Engage customers and partners to transle requirements into actionable architectures and explain technical concepts both visionary and detailed levels. •Insert new technologies—including AI/ML, automion, cyber resilience, da engineering, modeling, and advanced analytics—into future-looking solutions and roadmaps. •Serve as a senior technical authority who can confidently opere across multiple domains and guide the broader organizion toward innovive, differentied solutions. •Influence program direction and ensure proposed solutions are both visionary and executable. •Partner with the Business Development team to support new business stregies, including the development of technical solutions, basis of estimes, white papers, industry relionships, and  Basic Qualificions •Senior architect or engineering leader with experience as a technical lead on government contracts.  •Ability to transle mission needs into multi-domain technical architectures. •Awareness of leading technology capability providers th enhance our technical solutions •Experience as a solution architect and/or technical volume lead on captures and proposals •Experience articuling complex technical concepts to customers, business development, program delivery, technical teams, and executives, both orally and in writing •Bachelor’s degree with 15+ years of experience of relevant experience in computer science, engineering, da science, or other STEM discipline.  Additional years of relevant experience will be considered. •US citizen with an active TS/SCI with Poly security clearance Preferred Qualificions •Prior experience as lead SA on a proposal •Experience having worked successful partnerships with suppliers on proposals •Understanding of competitor/teamme technology offerings •Record of tracting and retaining technical professionals •Record of genering business growth through insertion of innovion and technology on existing programs •Demonstred experience architecting solutions in multiple domains, such as: AI/ML and intelligent automion, Cybersecurity and cyber resilience, Enterprise IT, cloud, and digital modernizion, Da analytics, or intelligence systems, Quantum, or other emerging domains. •Technical expertise in one or more mission-critical domains—AI, Cyber, Quantum, Software Engineering, Digital Modernizion, Cloud Migrion, or Mission Operions with proven ability to apply it to shape the future of technology.  •Strong technical understanding of AI/ML concepts, autonomous/Agentic AI, cloud migrion/architectures, digital modernizion, and cybersecurity technologies •Ideal candides will have a strong grasp of AI and Machine Learning concepts, including emerging Agentic AI frameworks, Deep Learning, and advanced intelligent systems. •Awareness of leading technology capability providers th enhance our technical solutions •Experience advising applicion teams on migring legacy systems to cloud-based solutions such as AWS, Azure or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure  •Knowledge of emerging AI governance, ethical AI, and secure development frameworks •Demonstred success in technical capture, white paper development, or proposal support •Ability to conduct technical research into new technologies, evidence ghering to help shape solutions.           If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the stus quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares. Original Posting: December 11, 2025 For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipes th this job requisition will remain open for least 3 days with an anticiped close de of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting de as listed above. Pay Range: Pay Range $154,050.00 - $278,475.00 The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compension or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, educion, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market da, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law. About Leidos Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovions. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximely $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more informion, visit www.Leidos.com. Pay and Benefits Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. Th's why we craft compension packages th reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compension, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits. Securing Your Da Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos’ name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-reled informion during any part of the employment applicion process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communice with you through emails th are genered by the Leidos.com automed system – never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos th asks for payment-reled informion or any other personal informion (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediely by emailing us LeidosCareersFraud@leidos.com. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Commitment to Non-Discriminion All qualified applicants will receive considerion for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, nional origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic informion, pregnancy, family structure, marital stus, ancestry, domestic partner stus, sexual oriention, gender identity or expression, veteran or military stus, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws. Apply Now